Use Rvest And Css Selector To Extract Table From Scraped Search Results

Just learned about rvest on Hadley's great webinar and trying it out for the first time. I want to scrape (and then plot) the baseball standings table returned from a Google search

Solution 1:

Here's an example from an easier site...

library("rvest")
url <- "http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/standings/"
html(url) %>% html_nodes(".yui3-tabview-content") %>% html_nodes("table") %>%html_table